It was the year 2005 when two very young ‘Kun’ Agüero and Leo Messi coincided for the first time. It was in the U-20 World Cup preview and both had a fun moment. The forward sat at lunchtime at the same table as the now Paris Saint-Germain player, along with Lautaro Formica and Ezequiel Garay.
At that moment, Omen He realized that he had not seen Leo before in the albiceleste calls and, neither short nor lazy, he asked him: “What is your name?” “Lionel”, the Argentine ‘star’ was limited to answering. “Just like me, almost … Your last name?”, ‘Kun’ continued to be interested.
Then, Garay intervened: “What? Don’t you know who it is? “, the former Real Madrid player asked surprised. But the striker did not take long to clear up doubts: “after a while in training I said to myself ‘this flies’ and we hit it right away,” Aguero recalled years later in an interview.
Messi and Di María, smiling during the meal with the albiceleste in which Kun was presented with a cake for his 26th birthday
At that concentration they had to share a room and, from that moment, they forged a strong friendship that remains today: “One is an introvert (Messi) and the other, an extrovert (Agüero) but in the dialogue they are similar, they are a good complement. Leo waits to see what Kun does, he is amused. And Kun is amused to be amused, “he says Gerardo Salorio, physical trainer of the Argentine national team.
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And precisely that “thug” character of the ‘Kun’ led them to do some antics together: “In Holland 2005 in the hotel there was a machine that sold everything: sweets, French fries … but we were forbidden to go and at 9 each had to be in their room. But one night the Kun said ‘let’s buy from the machine’ and we hid things under our shirts, “Messi himself said.
Kun Agüero and Leo Messi joke during the Argentine National Team’s training session at the Camp Nou prior to the match against Catalonia.
“It was 9:03 p.m. and the elevator door opened and it was Salorio. Kun didn’t know how to protect himself so that things wouldn’t fall out. ‘Are they tasty?’ Asked Salorio. “Let’s do something. Finish savoring them, because it is ugly to take something out and throw it away, but they are the last you eat, eh? Come on, enjoy them,” he continued.
Yesterday, after announcing his retreat, Leo wanted to have some pretty words for his friend: “Practically a whole career together, Kun … We lived very beautiful moments and others that were not so beautiful, all of them made us unite more and be more friends. And we are going to continue living them together outside the field. I love you friend”, he wrote the ’10’ in his official Instagram account.